Hospitals help ensure that their victims don’t recover (as long as they have insurance) by giving them the worst food possible. Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine are encouraging hospitals to offer more than the garbage they currently offer.

Iran has threatened to resume uranium enrichment and block UN inspections of its nuclear facilities unless the UN nuclear agency reverses its resolution to refer it to the Security Council for possible sanctions.

As Congress finalizes the wording on the 2006 Agricultural Appropriations bill in the House/Senate Conference Committee, thousands of consumers are mobilizing across the U.S. to stop an industry-sponsored “Sneak Attack” on Organic Standards contained in a rider to the bill.

According to an article in blesovky, apple trees have bloomed twice in the same season in two villages in the eastern European country of Slovakia . As apples hang on the tree ripening, large healthy blossoms have appeared. Could this be another effect of global warming?

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) governing board, under pressure from the US, has decided to report Iran to the UN Security Council despite finding no evidence that Iran is working on any kind of nuclear weapons program.

Disaster experts will tell you that a key to surviving a catastrophe is to quickly discard the old paradigm of normalcy and to act with urgency and creativity in facing the new reality. There is no time for fretting or wishful thinking; decisiveness and imagination are crucial.

The U.N. Human Rights Committee, scheduled to meet in Geneva next month, has written to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) calling for any available evidence of human rights abuses by the United States — particularly in the aftermath of its global war on terrorism.

Thousands of Latin American immigrants in the southeastern United States uprooted by Hurricane Katrina are now fleeing Hurricane Rita, while activists are demanding that the U.S. government provide them with special protection, because so many are hesitant to seek assistance out of fear of deportation.

The CIA run ‘Al Qaeda’ is being used to prevent the real Iraqi resistance from gaining support by staging terrorist attacks against civilians. If Iraqis are busy fighting each other they won’t be able to fight their true enemy.

For those of us, which have chosen to stay in the public eye, whether on TV or in print, find ourselves in a strange space at the moment. Allow me to share some thoughts, memories and some of the things which I have related to many of you over the past two weeks.

The first hard numbers on the economic damage caused by hurricane Katrina are in and the news isn’t good: plunging factory orders, soaring costs and the biggest jump in jobless claims in nearly a decade.

America can’t stand the presence of democracy in Venezuela because it might be bad for big business and spread to other countries. Efforts to unseat the wildly popular President Hugo Chavez has failed yet the US keeps pumping money into the opposition.

At the very least, there are two Level-3 biolabs in New Orleans and a cluster of three in nearby Covington. They have been working with anthrax, mousepox, HIV, plague, etc. There are surely other labs in the city.

Animal rights activists claimed another victory against beleaguered animal testing group Huntingdon Life Sciences after the company’s planned New York stock exchange listing was pulled at the last moment.

Fast food corporations, like the tobacco companies before them, are largely aware of the ill-effects of their products, but as long as the customers keep lining up they continue to sell their toxic wares.

The U.S. military is tube-feeding more than a dozen of the 89 prisoners on hunger strike at the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba. The prisoners are on hunger strike in protest of their inhumane and illegal treatment.

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One of the limitations on using hydrogen as a fuel has been the storage issue. Danish scientists have developed a new and safe storage method that will make hydrogen more practical as an automotive fuel.

As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters a battalion of highly trained volunteer firefighters from across America sat idle in a muggy conference room in Atlanta for training on how to hand out FEMA brochures and do PR.

Global warming is causing soil to release huge amounts of carbon, making efforts to fight global warming tougher than previously thought. Earlier studies had revealed the phenomenon 10 years ago but were largely ignored.

The residents of rural Laurel, Mississippi, a town of 20,000, will soon receive a semi truck from Champaign carrying thousands of pounds of canned goods, water, diapers and infant formula. A small but willing group of ordinary folks from central Illinois and central Mississippi, who met for the first time this weekend, made it all happen.

Sometimes all that a person can do to help others is to send their prayers. Numerous scientific studies have clearly demonstrated that prayer and meditation have a real impact and that the key factor is simply intent.

Emergency stocks of oil in the US, Europe and Asia will be released onto the market in an attempt to stabilize oil prices. However, this may make little difference in the unwarranted price gouging at the pumps.

Leave it to Bush to figure out a way to use a disaster like hurricane Katrina to further his agenda for world war III by channeling FEMA funding through a ‘christian’ charity founded by the rabid dog Pat Robertson.

Many scientists and environmentalists are linking the increased severity of hurricanes to global warming and calling for action. Meanwhile, Bush’s response is to cause more greenhouse gases to be emitted.

Greg Henderson is a pathologist from New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina struck he stayed in the city and has set up a makeshift hospital at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, along with fellow doctors who were attending a medical conference.

On Wednesday reporters listening to horrific stories of death and survival at the Biloxi Junior High School shelter looked north across Irish Hill Road and saw Air Force personnel playing basketball and performing calisthenics.

Three days after the hurricane there are thousands dead and hundreds of thousands homeless. Little or no effective response has been seen by the Federal govt. as a delusional George Bush obsesses with punishing looters and raising relief money and his minions brag about what a great job they are doing.

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